I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world